Is the US military prepared for an alien invasion?
Fuck no.
>>30185211
Do they still have any torpedo rams and just a handful of men?
Likely already happened. It was probably subtle.
Maybe don't worry. The bros are on it, or perhaps in on it.
Shit might get bad, or eventually mega-sweet.
>>30185211
No.
Yes. We introduce liberal/marxist ideology into their alien society then watch their civilisation collapse from the inside.
>>30185211
Depends on what kind of aliens. Are we talking aliens like from Signs that would die if we just blast a bunch of Super Soakers at them? Or something like daemons from the Warp would could mindfuck the entire world population in an instant?
>>30185211
Why would aliens have an interest in us? Either we're too far away, or if not then they could probably make it to uninhabited earth-like planets. All the metal or organic resources they could ever want are right on the edge of even our solar system, comets and asteroid mining would be much easier. Use humans as slaves? Even we are pretty close to an all automated society, robots making cars and eventually other robots. Humans are nothing but potential trouble as slaves, yet probably harmless once advanced enough to build starships (as our automation would create a human elite class). There's literally no reason aliens would come here and pick a fight, especially now that humans have the capability of making a potential messy doomsday weapon like in Outer Limits "Dead Man's switch" where they wired all the biological, chemical, and nukes to blow if a button wasn't pushed daily.
Or, maybe they've discovered the secrets to aging like Lexx Brigadoom, where they're too scared of accidents to leave their bunkers and live life. Universe is a dangerous place to go around picking unnecessary fights when you already have no needs and advanced technology.
>>30185211
Military planners plan for every conceivable type of situation. I'm more than willing to wager a weeks wages on the fact that sat somewhere in a drawer in many of the Worlds leading nations are the plans to counter just such a threat. If they'll actually work come that day, well.....
>>30185399
'shoot them with guns and stuff'
>>30185375
That shit always passed me off. Everyone like omg that's like so unexpected and smart like they just die from water or the aliens from war of the world just get a cold.
Like fuck off how much planning would nasa do to make sure astronauts were safe before going somewhere. There's no way aliens would be that dumb
>>30185211
Yes. As long as they believe we're still a 17th century civilization when they arrive.
>>30185211
I'd imagine their plan is "Link up with Russia, shoot nukes."
>>30185427
Hello, Mr Turtledove.
>>30185375
pretty sure the "aliens" from Signs were supposed to actually be demons. The "holy water" from the cups around the house, and Gibson regaining his faith. There's convincing theories on the web, but I don't want to find them right now.
>>30185424
>>30185375
i always wondered if the aliens from the signs were harmed by especially humid environments as well
To be fair, if they're able to get to us in a quick, convenient amount of time (for them), they'd probably want things other than resources from us. The reason for that being, they outclass us completely and utterly, and there's plenty of better places for resources and even labor. If I had to guess, they'd probably want to take a look at our culture and such; we might just be entertaining to them, for better or worse. Maybe they might have Earth as their playground where they wage small wars for fun, coming and going at their own leisure.
If aliens come, how hard we're screwed is totally up to them.
Oh, forgot to add; if we're really lucky, they might just like our literature, movies, anime, manga and videogames. If we're really, really, really, really lucky.
>>30186234
>aliens become weabood and furrified
and in the end, we will win
To tigers, other tigers are perfectly camouflaged.
To us, they are nearly fluorescent orange.
What do you think our camouflage looks like to aliens?
If God gave us dominion over animals, wouldn't he give something else dominion over us?
Maybe it's not our right to fight aliens. After all, did God tell animals to obey us? Do animals have a bible that teaches them this?
>>30185211
>Is the US military prepared for an alien invasion?
No.
>>30185424
The cliche is so the viewer/reader doesn't realize just how fucked humanity is, giving the "villain" lots of power but with some weakness, which provides hope.
But let's be honest. Say WE'RE the aliens in a scenario. We master space travel across systems and stars in a practical amount of time.
By that point, our other technology and scientific fields would be very far along as well, in order to support us being able to get to other star systems.
If we come across a planet with beings that have barely even begun in their technological and scientific levels to obtain reliable space travel, let alone interstellar travel. How fucked do you think they'll be if we decided to throw our military might onto them?
Hell, their planet would be burning before we even land any soldiers or equipment.
>>30186255
But tigers have incredibly effective camouflage.
>>30186234
We'll have to fight them with complications from Epstein-Barr virus.
>>30185211
Any species that is advanced enough to have cheap-ish FTL travel could roflstomp most of Earth's military might pretty easily. That being said, if their society is anything like ours, they'll see it as a much better business opportunity to uplift us. Plus, if they have Social Capital like we do, exterminating a "mostly harmless" planet would bring significant backlash.
That being said, the aliens could be super slavers that just go world to world stealing people and making them work in the opal mines, much like Australian niggers.
If the aliens are dumb enough to uplift us and give us FTL tech, our spiral arm is basically fucked because Humans will drop colonists off on any scrap of land that could *potentially* be habitable *eventually.*
Kinda like Mass Effect, some cold ice ball in the center of another empire they never bothered to colonize because it's such a hell is wasteland? SEND THE COLONISTS!
The government is already run by aliens
>>30186345
Or it could be they're drug dealers
first taste is free and everything after costs resources
>>30186355
i sure didnt vote for no alien, only american citizens
>>30186345
Why the assumption that ftl makes for an advanced race? People could fly long before they knew why it worked.
There could be the same deal with ftl travel. Stumble on an effect with no knowledge of why it works. Might only need 19th century mechanics to build it.
>>30186290
Yea, when NOTHING AROUND THEM is green.
>>30185399
honestly it would be the same contingency plan as "opfor has overwhelming everything wat do?"
>>30185424
To be fair they might not have thought about earth pathogens. Maybe things evolved differently on their planet and they don't have bacteria on their planet. Or they were just arrogant, most bacterial species on earth don't pass between different species of animals, zoonoses(diseases that pass between humans and other animals) are pretty rare so they might have just thought that their biology would be so different that nothing would affect them.
>>30185211
Well we have been dealing with the aliens from Mexico with little effect I am gonna say no.
>>30185211
its more likely we would face an alien AI. either way the answer is definitely no
>>30186743
uh...what? once we got planes working we figured out real quick how to make them work better and that required understanding flight.
>>30186743
You don't just stumble on FTL travel
>>30186270
Lel
>>30185211
no.
our militaries on earth face the "japanese problem" -- the upper limits of our military technology are limited by "cultural" self-limitations.
Basically, to even have a chance against even a relatively weak, low-tech alien threat, we'd need nukes in space, space lasers, orion propulsion space craft/missiles and a millieu of shit that illegal by international law...and we'd need it en masse, so "wrench turning" it together wouldn't be fast enough.
We'd stand a chance if we were to deploy something similar to SDI's grand vision, but again -- only if it's low tech aliens (think: no light speed fucks who reached us in a generation ship and only have tech ~50-100 years better than our own). It'd be a north korea vs. the US in total war sort of scenario, so pray for our own numerical superiority + the space equivalent of kami kaze.
FTL aliens would basically be space magicians, so if they wanted us dead, then we die.
>>30186743
>People could fly long before they knew why it worked.
The difference between flight and FTL is immense. Mainly in that flight can occur naturally. A split bamboo stave spun on a string will fly like a helicopter...so will ash seed pods, subtly bent leaves, etc.
In developing flight, we simply imitated these shapes and refined the why.
Nothing in nature accelerates to FTL speeds. We can't learn FTL by imitation like we did with winged flight.
>>30185211
It's hard to prepare for unknown. But assuming that an alien invasion has to start from air we can say that as long as their hardware reflect 100kHz-90GHz band they will probably be able to do something about it.
But then again it is possible that alien ships have heavy armor and still fly somehow, then they'd have hard time.
>>30186345
>Any species that is advanced enough to have cheap-ish FTL travel could roflstomp most of Earth's military might pretty easily
>>30186817
>>30187191
We don't know that. There might be a super simple way to go FTL that we just haven't discovered yet.
Fuck, maybe all it takes is some magical element that's not found on our planet.
For all we know their tech is 80 years behind ours.
>>30187234
>We don't know that
no, we very much do no that there's nothing in nature as simple as a bent leave that can demonstrate FTL. Otherwise, we'd have simple FTL by now.
>>30187256
What if it's a byproduct of some super rare galactic event? What if it hurled down on some planet and not ours?
Other planets might even have creatures that evolved around it, and are capable of things we can't even imagine.
Claiming something is impossible because we haven't seen it happen in our tiny little world is idiotic.
>>30186239
>Cultural Victory
>>30187256
Nonsense, all you have to do is bend space together around some sort of gravity shenanigans and then avoid getting lost in the warp.
>>30186276
Some things have tried to justify this by not making the aliens their actual military.
Mining company security forces, desperate refugees who need a planet to live on, that sort of thing.
Also its funny that in the War of the Worlds setting the technology already exists to deal with the walkers. With a months notice any industrial power could have mounted their QF naval defence guns on land carriages and hit the walkers with direct fire AP shells. Hell the Thunderchild killed two and torpedo rams are one of the most useless types of warship ever built.
>>30186763
You mean like the places they hunt?
Yes
They recruit many aliens on a regular basis
>>30186763
>tree snakes are useless, they are obvious if you stick them on grey rocks!
>>30187263
It would be physically impossible for them to have less advanced weapons if they have ftl travel.
If you travel ftl you can impact ordinance at ftl , and by extension have planet shattering weapons.
>>30187319
Why? If ftl travel does not involve accelerating past the speed of light then why will it allow better weapons.
Its impossible to speculate, wormholes would not allow ftl weapons for example. Hell most ftl methods in science fiction would not allow them either.
>>30187319
>the laws of physics forbid an individual to have certain information that another individual does not
>>30186255
>Protip he didn't.
There is no personal god. He did make Natural Law and was the Prime Mover.
>>30187329
I'm not >>30187319
our physics models tell us that you need ∞ energy to achieve ftl. that implies mastery of energy generation and control.
if you dont have that, the same models tell us you need to control gravity in some way. on that line of thought but applied as a weapon they would posses something that can produce the same effect as the red matter from star trek.
if you don't have that either the same models tell us you need to control some quantum fields and effects. the number of ways this could be turned in a weapon is huge. think ability to generate antimatter or negative mass or something like the force from star wars.
if you don't have that either but you can ftl travel, our physics model is wrong or they live in another dimension not affected by the forces in our dimension.
>>30187329
If ftl does not involve faster than light acceleration, then it involves gravitic manipulation which again would have extreme implications for weaponry.
>>30187352
The laws of physics prevent faster than light travel without one of the following.
Hyper energy dense propulsion as it is impossible for combustion or gas expulsion drives to breach relativistic speeds.
Manipulation of mass until the object has 0 mass so it can be accelerated instantly to light speed
And finally for the guy who speculated of FTL without post relativistic speeds, if that where a possibility then they have the ability to fold space.
Any of these options are above our current technology and all of them would have extreme implications for weaponry, ergo unless you are trying too imply ayy lmao has ftl but their military science is so inept they cannot conceive ways to use this tech any single one would revolutionize warfare
>>30185211
>implying the DoD isn't working with the invasion
Until we have Nanosuits and most of our tech is hardened/immune against EMPs, no.
/r/ing the Ghandi theory screen cap of an alien invasion
>>30187582
>Hyper energy dense propulsion as it is impossible for combustion or gas expulsion drives to breach relativistic speeds.
no
>Manipulation of mass until the object has 0 mass so it can be accelerated instantly to light speed
This reduces the energy requirement to reach a certain velocity, the energy you get out of it will still be lower than the energy you put in. It won't make for a more powerful weapon, a more accurate one at most.
>and finally for the guy who speculated of FTL without post relativistic speeds, if that where a possibility then they have the ability to fold space.
Again, a weapon using this won't have more energy, it will simply reach its destination quicker.
>>30187679
I don't understand physics, the post
>>30187679
What are you proposing to travel faster than light with if it isn't hyper energy dense as no particle with mass can reach the speed of light, and emissive drives cannot provide infinite energy
>>30185211
are you familiar with project blue beam?
>>30187735
>reaching light speed requires infinite energy
>reduce mass to reach said speed with only a reasonable amount of energy
>the objects kinetic energy is now reasonable instead of infinite
Even if you returned the mass to normal it would probably slow down, since you can't magic energy out of nothing.
How difficult is this to understand?
>>30187760
Folding space, obviously. But again, a weapon traveling through folded space does not contain more kinetic energy than a weapon that does not.
>>30187679
>Again, a weapon using this won't have more energy, it will simply reach its destination quicker
You missed the point, that one wasn't about energy it was on the point of the post
Any ftl drive revolutionizes weapons tech.
If they have the ability to fold space as a method of travel then they have the ability to deliver warheads with no possibility of interception, this renders all armor and active defenses useless.
Is they have the ability to accelerate to faster than light they either have the capability of generating infinite energy, again revolutionary, or they can manipulate mass to be 0 in some way which allows not only light speed travel but instant acceleration, completely negated mechanical and structural fatigue and thousands more considerations
They wouldn't "invade" us. They'd just throw a RKKV at us, we would never see it coming, and they'd take whatever they wanted after the fact.
Best argument for NOT searching for xeno fucks. Fuck seti
>>30185211
>Is the US military prepared for something you literally cannot prepare for?
>>30187805
Arguably we yourself should start making and sending out automated project Orion RKKVs ourselves.
No one is prepared for an alien invasion.
>>30187803
>Is they have the ability to accelerate to faster than light they either have the capability of generating infinite energy
Why don't we go ahead and say that's not possible.
>or they can manipulate mass to be 0 in some way which allows not only light speed travel but instant acceleration
This does still not make for a more damaging weapon.
>completely negated mechanical and structural fatigue
I'll give you that, good point.
They'll probably also have shielding against space dust and debris at those speeds which could be used against lighter weapons.
Still, it's not impossible for them to be at the same or even lower technological level in aspects other than space travel.
What if all it takes really is a simple element we haven't discovered yet?
Spacetravel might be babby tier easy.
>>30185211
>Is the US military prepared for an alien invasion?
any civilization capable of traveling across the universe is too advanced to be fought by anyone in this rock.
>>30187846
>What if all it takes really is a simple element we haven't discovered yet?
Um, even the most stable elements in the predicted 'island of stability" have half lives on the order of seconds. If you're implying the tech to keep wonky numbers of neutrons and protons from flying apart, we're back to magic.
>>30187872
We've been at magic since the beginning, considering we don't really know jack shit about any of this.
Also read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_%28short_story%29
It's an interesting way of looking at it.
>>30187883
Dude, we know how elements are created and how their makeup determines their properties to rule out magic elements.
>>30186345
Why do you assume humans would be the only ones to expand that way?
>>30187846
You're just so stupid it hurts.
>>30187823
not even the aliens?
>>30187846
If mass could be manipulated in such a way, acceleration of a 0 mass object is instantaneous, if this where a field effect, leaving that field would mean mass was reinstated and hey presto, you now have a projectile at just subliminal speeds with mass, this would be the 1st thing our race does if we discovered mass manipulation technology.
>>30185211
If they aren't way overpowered (ie halo covenant), the air force can fuck shit up.
>>30185211
>arch
Evertime I see this picture in the catalog I think it's the St. Louis Arch going on a murder spree.
>>30187936
and disregard the greentexted 'arch', just making sure no one else said the same shit... not that they would.
>>30187916
Thanks, y-you too.
>>30187933
Then you would be shitting on the laws of physics.
>>30186743
Wanna know how I know you're still taking middle school science
>>30187679
Even so, a weapon that can reach its destination quicker would allow them to build more effective weaponary than us.
>>30187933
>0 mass
>0
>c*0 still = 0
>>30187947
The entire premise of faster than light travel mandates shitting on physics.
If we find a way to do it then one of the core Tennant's of our understanding of physics is fundamentally wrong and all science working from that theory requires complete reevaluation
>>30187990
Reaching an actual velocity faster than light = shitting on physics.
Reaching your destination faster than light = not shitting on physics.
>>30187978
Would I blow your mind if I told you photons have momentum?
>>30187978
C*0 within mass reductive field
0 leaves field and is now basic mass of 1
1*(C- deceleration force intensity)
>>30187998
No, but if you are able to reach a destination faster than light without traveling faster than light then you have warped space to remove the distance negating all chance of interception by ciws or aps, this also allows bypassing any armor. Suddenly missiles and conventional weaponry become obsolete by this technology
no lol
>>30188012
Photon energy depends on wavelength fuckstick.
>>30188014
If it requires infinitely small energy to accelerate, guess what it also has infinitely small energy. It's not coming form your ass.
>>30188104
You miss the point, theoretical gravity manipulation requires using a constant field to suppress the mass to 0, once the field is exited the mass returns to normal and forces return to normal for an object with mass travelling at luminal velocities which are far higher than we can currently reach
>>30188045
1/10 the speed of light is the threshold of being for all intents and purposes untraceable and untrackable. This threshold.is already attainable by humans ISO g off the shelf parts and applied practical theory. Project Orion.
>>30188131
*By humans, by using off the shelf parts.
Auto correct fucked up there
>>30185336
#notallhumans
>>30186345
>Having FTL travel
>Not having complete mastery over biological technologies
>Not simply engineering mindless ever productive quantum slime matrices to perform any industrial/civic/personal task imaginable
>Not using said primordial slime matrices to fabricate your very own anatomically perfect waifu copy of Ignignock Swiftorp
>Still relying on primitive concepts of industry and production like slavery... and mining.....
>mfw
>>30187935
Halo covenant are way underpowered.
We would be incredibly fortunate if an alien civilization that could do interstellar travel had military tech was primitive enough to allow us to track and engage them, our weapons to harm them and our armor to have a chance at protecting us.
>>30188142
Using 4 times more nukes than the current global arsenal is "off the shelf" ok
>>30188131
Seems like such a field would have to impart an energy equal to the kinetic energy upon leaving it's influence, therefore requiring an equal amount of power to start off with.
You could use it to make a snub-nosed railgun though, that b cool.
>hold off alien invasion for 2 weeks
>China comes out with imitation alien weapons that do what the real ones do, but only last for a few months before breaking
>US buys those up on Alibaba
>Fight fire with Fire
>>30188182
More likely there would be an explosive release of force from nearby particles being passed aside
>>30187329
>wormholes would not allow ftl weapons for example
>Control over wormholes
>Not an applicable weapon
If you have the knowledge and tech to do anything resembling ftl travel, you can use it for weapons m80
>>30188178
>We're unable to produce more nukes
K
>>30188210
Such a projectile might just instantly evaporate into radiation.
>implying we'd see a conventional invasion
they'd just drop some supervirus that wipes us out, or drag a large asteroid into our planet, or block the sun, or drain the oceans, or poison the air.
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had an informal pact to band together in the face of an alien invasion
Geneva summit, 1985
>>30185336
we tell them how autists pol manchildren are first who doesnt even know what marxism is :^)
>>30188228
>Your able to produce 4 times the total global nuclear stock without causing another huge arms race. For 1 vessel.
What we need folks is a solar wall at the edge of our system alright. You have to make it big and beautiful. The aliens won't stop coming any other way.
Why would you invade Earth? Just colonize the rest of the solar system, exhaust all resources and leave this insignificant, backwards and primitive planet to rot in isolation. The monkeys will never have the resources to quickstar their Space Empire.
The thing you need to know is that these aliens, they're ripping us off in galactic trade. Totally folks, it's like we might as well not even be competing. So unfair. Take a look at the galactic trade some time, the pure imbalance is put of this world. Ok.
The most efficient methods to colonize the galaxy without FTL consist in sending Self-Replicating, Von neumann, Seeder Ships. These ships would be equipped with everything necessary to quickstar the process of terraforming and colonisation. Once the probe arrives to the system, it uses the local resources to make a copy of itself and moves to another system. The entire galaxy could be colonised within 3 million years.
Alternatively, if you wish to exterminate all life on the galaxy, you create a Berserk: A self-replicating warmachine designed to wipe out the life of of the galaxy in roughly 3 million years.
>>30186782
If they didn't have anything similar to bacteria on their home planet, its likely that our bacteria couldn't even infect them in the first place.
>>30188461
And then the swarm stops at the wrong planet and pisses off the god-like aliens there who proceed to track down where this plague came from and destroy those worlds, but at least the Borg gave galactic domination a shot and that's what's important. I always thought it was funny they wanted more area to control when all they did was stand around when the Star Trek crew beamed over, implying they might as well be a Matrix society that doesn't really do anything.
If they have mastered faster than light travel, we're super-duper fucked. The gap in technology will be incomprehensible. We're talking "that's magic" tier shit.
It won't even be maya versus conquestadors, more like trillobites vs SEAL team 6. They may come for resources we not only don't know about, but may not have the means to comprehend.
>>30188358
Didn't Nixon do this in a futurama episode?
>>30185211
If an alien race capable of interstellar travel comes to Earth with hostile intentions, there isn't a thing any of Earth's armed forces can do to hinder them.
>>30187295
Except that when a battery of artillery attempted to ambush the walkers, they were successful until the walkers started spamming poison gas everywhere, and that became their SOP from then on.
Walkers didnt know what a warship was at first, but you can bet they will just shoot death rays at every ship after that.
>>30190063
> Self-Replicating, Von neumann, Seeder Ships.
>assuming they haven't already done this
>assuming we aren't the product of this
>assuming they aren't fully aware of who we are and what we're up to
>assuming they wouldn't just destroy any attempt at sending out Von Neumann machines
I don't know if we'd be some form of cattle, labor, or simply the galactic offspring of another race, but it seems like we may have been put here. It might just be that once we are developed enough as a species (i.e. can be trusted) we are expected to expand throughout the galaxy like our predecessors.
Who knows, would be cool though.
pic related an ayy I know
>>30190185
linked to the wrong post
this was what I meant >>30188461
>>30187582
According to the "laws of physics", dark matter cannot possibly exist, so anything that indicates the existence of dark matter is the product of human error.
>>30190195
You're a human error
>>30190127
You mean troglodytes.
>>30190195
according to those same laws, the Earth wouldn't have been produced by the Big Bang.
Our laws need some slight rejiggerings
>>30185211
Lol we can't even stop Mexican aliens from invading
Dumping pictures from my "ayy" folder
>>30186743
>People could fly long before they knew why it worked.
No they couldn't. Only when they figured out how lift works did their heavier-than-air "flying machines" start being complete and utter death traps.
Also you completely ignore the fact that all the early attempts to construct flying machines were based off observations of flying things in nature (birds, bats, various flying seeds), or observations of readily apparent physical phenomena (hot air + light stuff + large surface = flight).
You can't just 'observe' FTL, so you can't even begin to think how to emulate it.
>>30190236
2/?
>>30190241
>start being complete and utter death traps
Obviously I meant "stop".
>>30190251
3/?
>>30190262
4/?
>>30190274
5/?
>>30190218
>>30190218
the big bang theory has kind of fallen out of favor in modern times.
>>30190185
he looks like this Moldovan that deals methadone in my city.
>>30185211
how would present day humanity fair against the Borg?
>>30190316
we would be totally fucked. we had to use time travel to defeat them didnt we?
>>30190241
Uh, no. Aside from a few isolated attempts to fly, flying machines only became possible when the Technocracy started manipulating the consensus to allow their flying machines to work without incurring the usual paradox backlash.
>>30187926
Especially the aliens
>>30190303
In favor of even WORSE theories, like hyper-dimensional "membranes" touching and shit.
>>30190210
No I mean ancient brine shrimp motherfuckers. Evolutionary difference like orders of magnitude over just humans vs more-apish humans.
>>30185271
We XCOM now?
>>30190176
You want to use a gas sprayer against something with a range of several kilometres?
That artillery did not work properly because they were using field guns, things not designed to fire directly at armoured mobile targets.
>>30190321
They only had to do that because the Borg used time travel themselves.
>>30185211
The US can't even stop fat people from jumping a fence, and we're not even talking about space aliens yet.
>>30190590
>he thinks naval ship guns would work great on land
For all we know they can fire poison gas canisters with several KM range.
>>30186743
All these fucking retards. There is no such thing as FTL and no reason to think there ever will be
>>30190710
Cherenkov radiation is faster than light.
>>30186255
>wouldn'the give something else dominion over us?
Yea it's called himself and angels
>>30185211
Born just in time to fly a SSBIED at aliens.
>>30186255
Yes I remember my last hunt where the dear came to me to shoot him. Animals don't do what we any them only what we make them do
>>30190724
Only in a material though, by its very nature Cerenkov radiation can't exist in a vacuum.
>>30187448
Please stop spewing bullshit. Christianity is a Jewish trick and is completely made up to prey on white people's innate sense of universal morality and twist it into a suicidal, faggy death cult.
The natural ancestral religion for white people is blood and soil and heroism.
Christianity is Semitic and alien. Purge it from your mind it is a sick destructive virus.
>>30190782
Spot the Pagan FAGen.
>>30190782
I'm an atheist and even I think you're an edgy faglord.
>>30187998
FTL breaks causality you fucking tard.
>>30190782
broham, take the neonazi ideology and ditch it. Blut und Boden was just another means of control exactly like the religion you rail against. A set of ideologies for people to huddle around because they had no conviction of their own.
I live without a need for a guiding hand, and you should too. Reason and proven science guide me, and I feel good enough with that. I entertain myself here and there, but most of my actions are towards building the mortar of society. I dont need to be a hero, I dont need to be remembered. My actions simply help cement the world in place, and move it forward towards eventual globalism. What about you?
>>30185211
Only if they invest more in Torpedo Rams.
>>30190685
It was done in the Boer War and it worked. A 12 or a 24 pounder QF gun could easily be mounted on a carriage.
Also warships at the time had a much longer ranger than anything the walkers are shown to have.
>>30185395
this. If they find us first, they win. Not outright, but because the technology required to FIND us, let alone TRAVEL LIGHTYEARS to REACH us, means they will BTFO our planet
>>30185211
Any civilization capable of interstellar travel will either a) possess military technology so far beyond us as to render resistance a futile gesture, b) be pacifists that we can easily conquer and enslave, paving the way for the human domination of this galaxy.
>>30190900
I was thinking it'd be more like pacifists that simply avoid us.
>come back here, you faggot and let me conquer you
>aliens simply move more than a parsec away and then put us on pay-per-view
>>30186763
>>30188289
Pretty sure marxism is a societal cancer
I see no reason an alien race would make contact with us unless their intentions were peaceful, or at least not overtly hostile. Any race that could travel across space those distances could surely wipe us out without saying a word beforehand.
>>30185211
We just need to send them some nogs or muzzies, then let nature take its course.
>>30186763
Yeah man, tigers have spent all that time being an apex predator in their environment with ineffective camoflauge.
Jesus. What is the most basic function of evolution?
>>30185211
Hopefully the alien leader just challenges one of our soldiers to a game of tag with his daughter
>>30188285
That actually makes sense...
>Gorby wanna care about the rapid crumbling of your own social structures?
>Naaah. Too hard. Hey Ron, you gonna do anything about all those gays dying off from that weird disease?
>Nope! Wanna plan out how we'd fight aliens like in the movies?
>Da!
>>30185211
With all the illegal aliens I mean undocumented people? Yes we are prepared for it. Are the powers that be willing to nip it in the butt? Hell no! That's some of the bread and butter that keeps them in office.
>>30186743
Yes yes a road not taken.
Do remember that all those twats who lived on that road got ass raped by the ones who developed normal tech.
Also, asteroids, not the least bit hard to drop on a planet, just a bitch to get there sans ftl.
You know 9 months and you're there.
>>30185395
Have you read "The Killing Star" by any chance?
>>30188358
TRUMP 3016
BUILD THE DYSON SPHERE!
MAKE THE SOL SYSTEM GREAT AGAIN!
>>30185424
>That shit always passed me off. Everyone like omg that's like so unexpected and smart like they just die from water or the aliens from war of the world just get a cold.
Not even the worst part, when cracked was good (yes there was a brief time). They pointed out that they are completely naked. It would be like us invading a lava planet where it sometimes rains lava from the sky and doing it in our skivvies
>>30185211
No one has a clue. For all we know we'd face off against people with starships that somehow never thought of muskets.
But..... Any civilization capable of getting here with hostile intentions is likely able to destroy the earth in seconds though. It wouldn't really be a fight so much as them releasing a bio weapon or dropping a big ass rock on us from orbit though.
Would guns kill them? Probably. It's unlikely they'd be invincible killing machines as a product of evolution. But given how our weapons work is very likely whatever type of armor they have would make firearms useless and who knows how big a bomb it would even take to make a dent. And that's before not-so-sci-fi bullshit like forcefields that might very well protect against direct hits with nuclear weapons or some shit.
The level of tech it would take to get here combined with a militant enough bent to invade us would suggest they could probably convince us they are gods of death their weapons must be so much more advanced then we could imagine.
But also alien invasion is hollywood bullshit. Any beings capable of FTL travel would have so many other ways of getting what little our pebble has there is no point.
>>30185375
why would they invade a planet thats mostly water? Why were they naked?
We build the wall
If they can get here and want to pick a fight, our only chance is that they're some sort of mega corporate style race that will retreat when their bean counters determine that it's not worth the resources required.
>>30185211
We had a down day, make that 2 down days for suicide and sexual assault. Also I was scolded by a grown "man" because I called some fellow soldier a "faggot". Long story short, our military is soft and is turning into a faggots paradise.
Our military is more concerned where all the clit dicks can go pee pee, than being prepared for war.
>>30185211
More importantly, are YOU prepared for an alien invasion? I know I am.
>>30190590
This reminds me of a quest on tg that was the unholy spawn of war of the worlds with metal slug martians and strike witches. AYY Lamos try and hit berlin and run into the flack belts
>>30189747
That is not how bacterial infection works, newfriend
>>30185211
Can't really prepare for a complete unknown. You're basically asking if the US military is prepared against magic.
>>30189747
Yeah, that's not how bacteria works, that's how viruses work.
They may not be susceptible to viruses, because, to save time I'll put it extremely crudely, the coatings on the viruses act as keys to inject themselves into the cells that they are compatible with.
Bacteria would actually probably be able to infect them and incapacitate them easily, because their immune systems wouldn't be used to the kinds of bacteria on Earth. Bacteria just have to grow without anything hindering them, they don't have to interact with the cells other than to kinda "feed" on them, for lack of a better term.
